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My Goals in Life
Kendra Campbell -- I was very inspired by Ali’s last post about creating a vision for the future. So, here’s an abbreviated list of my life goals:
1. Finish med school at the top of my class and become a skilled emergency physician/family practitioner/neurosurgeon/pathologist/trauma surgeon/pediatrician. (Perhaps you can see the problem here.)
2. Write a Pulitzer Prize winning book about something very important.
3. Come up with a successful solution to the problem with healthcare in the U.S. and internationally. (Specifically, finding a way to provide affordable universal healthcare to everyone, and at the same time loosen the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries’ grip on our current faltering system, which seems to only make the wealthy even wealthier and sentences the less fortunate to perpetually worsening conditions.)
4. Give birth to 3.5 healthy children and raise them all to be exceptional people, all while continuing medical school and building my career. (This would most likely involve concurrently discovering a way to not require sleep.)
5. Travel to every continent and many different countries on a regular basis (and also learn the language(s) of the various places I visit).
6. Convince the world that a war on “anything” is never a solution, but rather serves to propagate the futile and infantile belief that declaring and “winning” a war is a sane approach to any problem.
7. Run a successful animal adoption society from my farm (which will include many acres of wildlife, and also be situated in a large metropolitan area).
8. Orchestrate the mass destruction of all televisions and convince the world’s population that they would actually be better off without “American Idol” and commercials for drugs that they probably don’t need, but for some reason seem to desire after watching the beautiful lady who started taking the advertised drug suddenly be whisked away to a lush, green field with butterflies and chirping birds (see also #3).
9. Learn as much as possible from those who are much wiser than I.
10. Create a recipe for fat-free and calorie-free peanut butter cheesecake that tastes exactly like the real thing.
November 17, 2007 in Kendra Campbell | Permalink
Comments
nice goals! keep dreaming and thinking of them and they'd come true for sure. ;) hope you'll become whatever kind of doctor you want to be. i hope i will too. ;)
Posted by: nina | Nov 17, 2007 9:30:32 PM
WOW!!!!!
Most of those goals were my goals one day,
but after spending seven years in this college u learn how to be pessimistic
and that not everythg u dream of comes true.
This is my last year in medschool,
actually my last two monthsl.
I kept holding on to those dreams till third year
afterwards i collapsed and understood the reality in life and lost all my goals all together.
I wish I could get those goals back again and be optimistic like u
coz thats the only thing that can keep one of us going on in medschool,
but again those dreams are really great keep holding on to them and dont let anyone tell u otherwise
I used to dream of winning noble
and finding a cure for some soffisticated disease
or maybe the real cause behind cancer
and stop all these ppl from dying from different cancers everyday
and also having a life beside all that
and having kids....
DO YOU THINK ALL THIS IS POSSIBLE??
Really I wish I can get those goals back.
Now I am sooo pessimistic I dont think I can pass the next exams, although this yr I studied harder than any before it...
Anyways gooood luck
Dont let go of those dreams!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Fatema | Nov 18, 2007 3:38:07 PM
great list!!
"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else."
~ Lawrence J. Peter
Posted by: `jen | Nov 19, 2007 2:42:03 AM
Fatema: are you really a final year med student? If so, I weep for the future of our health care system. In fact, I weep for whatever part of society you join. Your thoughts are random, your spelling is awful and your grammar is, well, really, really crappy.
Posted by: | Nov 19, 2007 10:43:11 PM
I must (*must*) have fallen for a troll. Shame on me!
Posted by: | Nov 19, 2007 10:50:02 PM
Every day I put 3 times as many things on my to do list as can be done. And I find more things to do as the day progresses. While I am older than you and my dreams are less random, they are still very random, assuring me that I am alive and there are endless possibilities.
Posted by: | Nov 20, 2007 3:09:11 PM
always keep the optimistic way which u see life -
keep your goals and make them come true -
hard? possibly, but we only live once...
Posted by: ernesto | Nov 21, 2007 9:59:12 PM
It is good to have goals that are short term goals and long term goals, but I think you stretched it a little bit too far. Try your best see what happens. goodluck
Posted by: | Nov 21, 2007 11:59:11 PM
WOW!!
kudos to both you and Ali...
my goals and your goals do match in many ways, Kendra! goal #4 esp seems next to impossible na? =D
and i'm relearning(after med school- while waiting to get into residency) to dream! something i had forgotten how to!!
keep it up... good luck to you!!
Posted by: somi | Nov 22, 2007 5:51:46 AM
Sounds great! I am working on many of the same goals:
1. Okay, not first (possibly not last), but you remember what they call the person who graduated last in their med school class. On my way in FP. My best choice!
2. Book may not win prize (the story of a hard boiled middle aged intern and his quest to get lunch before afternoon clinic)but it would be fun to write.
3. Note to insurance companies and drug companies - get dictionary, look up "karma". As long as we keep caring for patients (emphasis on "care"), things are bound to get better.
4. Almost halfway there (2/3.5)both are spectacular! Sleep IS highly overrated.
5. In previous life, made it to all but Australia and Antarctica. Would like to see them and the others again. Learned enough spanish that I am often the go-to guy in ER/L&D/Inpatient. Would love to learn Czech and Arabic( and a slew of others).
6.Ditto. The tragedy and waste is overwhelming. I do believe in hope.
7. Really want a kitten, but my wife says no until we live somewhere with hardwood floors. Would also like the large farm within a major metropolitan area but with a good beach as well. Would grow corn to produce ethanol for sustainable energy(and have a whole passel of cats).
8. My five year old is actively working on the first part. Second part, explain to patients the side effect profile of the drugs in question and how the older drugs work just as well and are much cheaper.
9. I think that's what got me to here. Always remember that wiser people are not always older, better educated or more well spoken than you.
10. Please send recipe to my e-mail address.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Posted by: chip | Nov 22, 2007 8:14:45 AM
like everyone else i have dreams and goals too. here are some of them, to get started the list.
1. as an IMG, pass the STEP 1,2, and 3 in 2 or 3 years time. So that I can be trained in a first world country like yours and be a great ER Physican maybe or Internist/ Pulmonologist or pediatrician someday. I wish to be trained in a great institution and become great someday too.
2. Once able to be given a working visa, maybe i can help a lot of people in my commmunity and my family as well. You know your money is 44 times bigger in my country.
3. I can apply to WHO and help a lot of people in AFrica someday once being trained properly.
4. I can help my country upgrading its health system as well, you know our department of Health Budget is only 1% of our country's budget. so sad but its true. Maybe someday I hope I can speak for the poor. Like coming up with successful solutions for the Health in the Phillipines.
5. Build a hospital in my town and be able to help those who are less previledge, like having charity programs in my hospital. of course I will charge those who can already afford to make to hospital survive at least.
6. travel is one of my passion. visit all the beautiful and Ugly places, 3rd world to first world countries, experience every culture and maybe learn a little from it so that when I grow old, I will lots of stories to tell my grandchildren.
7. educate my patient with the best of my ability, educated them with their illness and adhering to treatment. educating them the importance of breastfeeding and living a healthy life. educating them that generic drugs are good drugs and not bad as what they all think. and implement a good patient doctor relationship.
8. be married someday and will have great kid and Build a beautifull house to live in.
9. adopt and Send kids to school, so that they can have a good life someday. And Maybe they will become great nurses here and abroad too, or maybe doctors too, or great politicians as well. so that I can decrease those who will become hungry and homeless and neglected as well. What do you think. ?
10. I will continue dreaming, I believe dreams kept us going. Stretching too far is not bad. They are just dreams. It would be nice if they can become realized someday, And Maybe some of you have same dreams as mine, Good luck, God Bless. May all our dreams be realizes. For now, Ill be workng with the number One. Im doing # 7 for the past year.
Posted by: vivian barrera | Nov 23, 2007 7:23:52 AM
well your goals are kinda selfish...
just a few are about doing anything else for anybody else, and that's whats suppose to be medicine, help everyone around you instead of having fame cause if youre good enough the reward will pay by themselves
Posted by: allie | Nov 23, 2007 11:12:48 AM
Nice goals Kendra, wish you all the best.
Fatema you have a wonderful spelling and a good society.
Dreams are the beginning and I intend to get them back too.
Posted by: | Nov 24, 2007 5:34:41 AM
there is JUST one Goal which concerns me, it is the 6th one whih is (the WAR IS NOT SOLUTION), becouse i am from Somalia -a state devastated by war- and we need that exactly that goal.
any way, thnks Kandra
Posted by: Dr.zakaria xoosh | Nov 24, 2007 12:32:07 PM
nice,nice. youre only GETTING CLOSE to my goals! the only thing is that you (unlike me) still havent dreamed of being supergirl!
Posted by: hamideh dehghani | Nov 25, 2007 1:07:45 PM
your dreams are wonderful.
Even if you dont realise them, it shows your mind is working well. Break down the dreams to many practical short term dreams and you'll attain them.
Posted by: sostanie | Nov 26, 2007 11:42:24 AM
